Architecture in the age of divided representation : the question of creativity in the shadow of production /

"The central part of the book addresses the question of divided representation - the tension between the instrumental and the communicative roles of architecture - in the period of the baroque, when architectural thinking was seriously challenged by the emergence of modern science. Vesely sees...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vesely, Dalibor
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Architecture, Modern > Philosophy.
Architecture > Aesthetics.
Architecture > Philosophie.
Architecture > Esthétique.
architectural theory.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architekturtheorie
Architektur
Ästhetik
Bouwkunst.
Cultuurverandering.
Esthetica.
Architecture.
Esthétique.
Philosophie.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modernity, freedom, and destiny
  • The nature of communicative space
  • The perspectival transformation of the medieval world
  • The age of divided representation
  • The foundations of modern architecture
  • Creativity in the shadow of modern technology
  • The rehabilitation of fragment
  • Toward a poetics of architecture.

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